A test release of GNUtrition, 0.33.0rc2, is now available.
GNUtrition is free nutrition analysis software written for the GNU operating system. The USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is used as the source of food nutrient …
Read MoreJune 16, 2026 from 16:00 to 18:00 (CET).
Read MoreTwo kernel zero‑day fixes, two quick Tails releases, and one Tor‑backed project determined to keep its privacy‑minded users safe — this is open source security hygiene in action.
The post Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and How Tails Under Tor Delivers ‘O…
With new data types, improved imports, error bars, and UI tweaks, Graphs 2.0 beta aims to become the go-to plotting tool for serious Linux data work.
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With the rise of Linux vulnerabilities, the kernel developers are now considering adding a component that could help temporarily mitigate against them… in the form of a kill switch.
Read MoreFedora Hummingbird ships the entire OS as a bootable OCI image with atomic updates and rollback support.
Read MoreBoth CachyOS and MX Linux sit atop the Distrowatch Page Hit Ranking list, but they are quite different distributions. Which one of these should you choose?
Read MoreA proposed scheduler update shows frame time improvements on aging hardware under heavy CPU load.
Read MoreRed Hat Desktop is for secure, production-style AI development, while Fedora Hummingbird is for AI agent experimentation.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Aditya Shakya has announced the release Archcraft 2026.05.12, an updated build of the project’s lightweight, rolling-release distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the Openbox an…
Read MoreKDE has announced it’s getting a €1.28 million grant from the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to help improve the Plasma desktop, KDE Linux and the communication frameworks used by both. The German government-backed fund, which sees its work as “…
Read MoreFedora offers two different takes on an immutable option, each of which might be similar on the inside, but on the outside, they couldn’t be different.
Read MoreThe Widgets feature can be annoying but it’s also able to provide useful news and info. Here’s how I tweak it to be less intrusive and more helpful.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Lime Technology, Inc. has announced the release of Unraid OS 7.3.0, the latest version of the company’s Linux-based commercial operating system designed for Network-Attached Storage (NAS…
Read MoreIf you recently downloaded the Cemu emulator for Linux from the project’s GitHub, be aware: it may have added malware to your system. The team behind the Wii U emulator discovered that both Linux builds of Cemu 2.6 on Github, the AppImage and a s…
Read MoreUse-after-free bug in Exim’s GnuTLS BDAT handling lets remote attackers corrupt memory, with no workaround other than upgrading to version 4.99.3.
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by George Whittaker
Canonical has officially kicked off development planning for Ubuntu 26.10, the next interim release of the popular Linux distribution. Codenamed “Stonking Stingray,…
Read MoreThe latest version of Fedora has been released with gaming support.
Read More When offered the option to run other people’s code, a prime
consideration is often ease of deployment. While much progress has been
made in support of rapid deployment, the security implications of those
quick deployments is often overlooked. In …
NVIDIA VA-API driver, the VA-API hardware acceleration implemention using NVIDIA GPU, released new 0.0.17 version a few days ago. The new version of this free open-source library fixed only two but important bugs for JPEG decoding and NVIDIA DGX Spark memory systems. As you may know, Linux has several ways (VA-API, VDPAU, AMF, NVDEC, or […]
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